ANIMAL SKETCHES DURING MY TRIP TO SOUTH AFRICA

Having my brother and wife here for a week and getting out and about, I have not created any new sketches or artwork, and as my new big big 250GB computer and 2GB RAM has been fitted today together with a wonderful scanner/printer 3in1, I can post some of my sketches I did when I went out to South Africa last October. I decided to use some of the animal sketches this time round.

My notes in the sketchbook remind me that this penguin colony are known as Jack Ass penguins because they bray like an ass and 2 pairs settled here in the Boulder Bay in 1984 and now there are over 3,500!! They were great fun to sit amongst and sketch.
This ostrict was wandering alongside the road on our way to Cango Wildlife Ranch. I actually picked up one of his feathers and stuck it in the sketchbook.

We spied this tortoise (slow enough to get some of the shell design and colour to finish later) amongst the flowers growing right down to the beach in Cape of Good Hope.
Number 4 today is a group of zebras in the Pumba Reserve who stood around for ages.

Now I have the scanner I will be able to post other sketches from my trip from landscapes, buildings, people and (of course they say) flowers.